Improvement in eaves-trough hangers



W. E. MAN R0 W.

Eaves-Trough Hanger.

Patented 0ct.11,1B75.

INVENTOR Attorneys NPETERS. PKOTD-LITHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON, D. C.

'ing locks, buttons, or similar Unrrnn STATES PATENT @rrron IMPROVEMENT IN EAVES-TROUGH HANGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168.572,

dated October 11, 1875; application filed July 23, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. MANROW, of Goshen, in the county of Elkhart and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eaveslrough Hangers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms apart of this specification, and in which the figure thereon represented is a transverse vertical section ofan eaves-trough having my improved hanger.

Experience has demonstrated that in all that class of hangers whereby the trough is detachably secured to the hanger by swing devices the trough will, in course of time, work loose from its fastenings, owing to the storms and gales to which, in its exposed situation, it is continually subjected, so as to project on one side of the building to which it is attached, and notreach far enough on the other.

To obviate this difficulty, and at the same time do away with soldering, which is usually employed to connect the trough permanently to its hangers, I clinch one side of the trough between the shoulder of the cross-bar and a projecting metal strip riveted onto the cross-bar, substantially as hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing, A represents the eavestrough, formed with a head, a, along its outer edge, as usual. B is the cross-bar, preferably made of light band-iron, which passes around the bead a and backward, turning down on the inside of the back part of the trough, so as to form the shoulder b. O is a malleablemetal strip, riveted onto the top of the crossbar B, near the shoulder 11, and which, before the trough is secured to the hanger, projects straight out from the cross-bar, at right angles to the downward-projecting shoulder b.

When the trough is to be placed in position the head a is first slipped through the outward curve of the several cross-bars B, and the back edge of the trough, which is straight and witl1- out any curve or head, is then raised up, so as to pass on the outside of the shoulder 1), its edge touching the flat projecting strip U. By the aid of a pair of pinchers or'other suitable tool the metallic strip 0 is then bent so as to encompass and clutch that part of the edge of how frequent or how strong the gales to the effect of which it is subjected.

lam aware that hangers have been constructed of malleable iron, with downward-projecting fingers, so arranged that they may be made to clutch and crimp the back part of the trough, as shownfor instance, in the patent to J. P. Abbott, No.146,8,55, dated January 27,1874. I do not claim this arrangement, which is necessarily somewhat expensive, be cause the conformation of the cross-bar and fingers is such that the whole must be made of malleable cast-iron in order to accomplish the result stated, or else must be hammered out of one piece of malleable iron.

The object of my invention is to furnish a cheap as well asefi'ective hanger, and this may be done by making the cross-beam B, with its head a and shoulder b, of common hoop-iron, and riveting thereto the malleable strip Gin such a manner that it projects at right angles from the shoulder .1).

Another advantage of my invention is, that the trough may be put up by anyone, simply by the aid of a pair of nippers or pinchers; whereas the downward-projecting fingers used in some hangers cannot be manipulated Withoutthe aid of a 'tool made for the purpose, requiring skilled labor to put it up.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent In an eaves-trough hanger made of hoopiron, the combination of a rigid cross-piece, B, having the bead a and downward-p ojecting shoulder b, with a malleable metal strip, 0, the latter so arranged that it projects laterally outward from the cross-piece B, and at right angles to the shoulder 12, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim'the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of June, 1874.

WM. E. MANROW. Witnesses:

I. D. OSBORN, E. G. HERR. 

